... Three Books for the Future A major change will occur in the future based in the movie, Time Machine 1960 version. Interesting thing that happened was that George, the main actor, took to the future 3 books with him. We do not know which ones they were. But if we would be able to travel to the future, we would take with us these books; (Medicine, Science and Basic clean Electricity). The first book that we choose was a Medicine book because would help us to understand our human body. Right now in the present we understand that without medicine the diseases would it takes over the human society. With the medicine knowledge in the future we will save further generations by teaching people how to take better care of them self. An important point is that medical book could diagnose the disease early and prevent less death by conserving futures generations. Medicine book is simply one of the books that society would need for ever to survive. The second book is science. It will help to create medicine for the future, developing new technology for our needs. It will also address social issues and solve everyday problem such as basic stuff; Ex. (How the world function in terms of our nature) Building knowledge for future generation. This book will be essential in the future because will satisfy curiosity among society. The science book is needed because it shows us the basic of everyday changes. The third book is a basic clean energy. Basic...
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...What is the future of printed books in the digital age? Marvin Kobek Test Essay Academia.research.com 3rd June 2014 For decades, printed books have been the undoubted medium in which people expressed their thoughts, stored information, transferred knowledge and codified laws. This method of communication dates back 500 years. Before the coming up of the digital age, printed books have been the only source of material available for citizens seeking to access any recorded information, students studying for exams or even for the religion searching for the scriptures[1]. Printed books were the only source of mass media. However, this dependency on printed books has changed. There has been an alteration in the reliance of printed books by the advent of the digital age. Applications such as kindles, internet, and Ipad affect the regularity of use of the printed books. Today, practically every phase of man’s activity is influenced or captured by automation. The variations and the far reaching effect have calls to enquire about the future of printed books in the digital age. The digital age has the birth of technologies that impact the way people organize things. A good example is in the in the music division. People are composing a sound without the usual pianos or guitars but over the means of a device called electronic mixer[2]. When it comes to press, there is the publication...
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...REVIEW ON COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE BY GARY HAMEL AND C K PRAHALAD This book is providing tools and concepts need to focus on technically produced with strategic planning in order to achieve the future success for a company as it has described the method of reinvention to satisfy corporate needs to be achieved through experience and discovery in the critical situation where company’s were fallen flat by the lack of integration and to have a fresh change that make the employee to work. It also focuses on combining companies and corporate visions for function operations. This book was very insightful in the area of teaching senior and top management skills and qualities that need to be possessed to be a successful company. The core competencies are not product specific but some exceeding resources and patience of single business unit create more options in the market. Business needs involving continuous leverage of core competencies with major contribution at all level of management for building and nurturing sophisticated, and more positive, and strategic architecture as a high-level blueprint for the reconfiguring of the interface with customers. As strategic intent is strategic architecture’s capstone but it’s an ambitious and compelling strategic intent that provides the emotional and intellectual energy for the journey. They are trying to create ambitious aspiration for the future and all in its importance. Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad emphasize that companies are focusing...
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...The Future of Printed Books in the Digital Age Students Name University Affiliation The Future of Printed Books in the Digital Age Books are cultural tools, which have undergone considerable changes since their inception. In the early times, books took the form of stones and clay tables, which, due to technology, evolved to the modernly printed book. Despite changes, the objective of books remained the same, which is, storing and preserving information. The storage and preservation of information have made it possible over the years to gain substantial knowledge. Therefore, the printed book will forever remain the most useful invention in learning (Bruccoli, 2007). On the other hand, professionals from libraries and publishing groups have commented that, the future usage of the printed books is on the decline taking into account the swiftly evolving technologies. The fear arises because digitalization has made it possible to provide printed books in electronic forms known as e-books, which has made it easier to access information. The threat is significant considering the wide usage e-books as the primary electronic contents in learning (Buzzeto-More, Nicole, & Elaboid, 2007). The question on the future of printed books in the digital age has induced mixed reactions. While some scholars feel that printed books will survive the digital age, others have commented that digitalization will cause the “death” of printed books. Scholars in opposition...
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...Comments What is the book about? Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan take us on a journey through personal and corporate transformation, explaining the theory and approaches, and showing that the seemingly impossible can be achieved. Vividly presented cases (for example Reebok, New Zealand Steel & Polus Group of Japan) make this real, and we are invited to go on our own journey through carefully constructed practical exercises. Who would this book be suitable for? The Three Laws of Performance is relevant to a wide variety of people ranging from individual contributors, managers, and executives. The book provides a map to rewrite the future, transform situations, and dramatically improve personal or organizational performance. Throughout the book, case studies are provided to reinforce core concepts. Book review by: Nivedita Wagh Title: The Three Laws of Performance Author: Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan Text book Reference book Book Review “The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life” is a book that will show you how ordinary business leaders were placed in unbelievably difficult conditions and made changes and improvements that were not only performance changing for the organization, but LIFE CHANGING for everyone involved in the process. If you’re a self-improvement junkie, and love reading anything having to do with how you think and how your brain works, you will love this book. If you are a more traditional...
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...accessing the internet. This essay will argue that through the rise of the internet, people have changed their old ways of thinking, shopping, and communicating, which has changed the future of books, television, and computers. Kenneth Jost stated, “The book-publishing industry is all abuzz over electronic books”. The new way students and people who love to read are learning is through electronic books. Some people like the old way of reading books, but now everything has changed. This has changed the future of books, which are now on the downfall. With the rise of the internet, new devises are created almost daily, leading to a new way to enjoy reading and other leisure activities such as looking at maps or pictures. This occurred due to the “cool factor” of possessing a computerized device and the quickness of accessibility. Furthermore, once someone gets a new device, their surrounding family and friends must also have one. They are portable and allow people to access useful computerized information or any book they would like to read at any time. People nowadays are using the internet so much, they don’t have the time to read conventional books anymore. The new technological advancements that have been made in recent times have caused books to fade out of our life and the new electronic book start to take over the market. This is leading to a population of internet ready people who have changed their thinking,...
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...Future of Printed Books in the Digital Age Name Institution Date of submission Once upon a time printed books were the undisputed medium of expressing literary culture, as well as source of information and knowledge. Books were a central part of the society acting as a vehicle for carrying and disseminating histories, ideas, stories, and pictures. However, over the centuries, the literary culture of reading and relying on printed books as the primary source of information has gradually changed. The digital age is populated with technology, which has revolutionized all aspects of lifestyle. Thompson (2005) notes that one of these aspects is the culture of reading printed material from books and other sources. In this digital age, information is readily available on the internet merely by a click of a button. This is not only convenient, but also consume less time as opposed to the earlier eras where one would take time and go to the library, search for a book, and finally read to get the required information. As a result, books are becoming less and less desirable as their future is overtaken by the digital sources of information. Today, e-books have replaced the printed version of books particularly with the invention and popularity of tablets and iPads that are perfect carriers of e-books. E-books are on the rise as the sales of printed books decrease, and soon they will completely replace the printed versions. For instance, in 2003, the sales of printed books decreased...
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...The Book Publishing Industry Assessment 1: Industry Opportunity Analysis Name: Joyce Yi Student no: n9102434 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The publishing industry is incredibly resilient and is undergoing some incredible changes. This report will analyse the industry with respect to the 4C’s of Entertainment Marketing and identify the key opportunities that are currently evident within the publishing industry and thus devise two potential ideas for future development and implementations. Research has found that indie publishers and authors are taking up a huge portion of the market and therefore more beneficial for these professionals to create digital content and distribute it independently. As publishers are not educated in IT and data Analytics, these skill sets will need to be outsourced or taught in order for self-publishers to maximise their revenue and consumer retention. Mobile applications are also proving to be the new way to read digital content by enhancing the consumer’s experience, thus adding value to the product. The growth of virtual spaces that allow people to network and collaborate on creative projects are also increasing and globalisation has shaken the industry and provide huge opportunities to bring distribution closer to the consumer and pursue a much larger audience. Therefore, this analysis indicates there could be future development for a platform at which authors, publishers, and developers can come together to collaborate and create book...
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...market approach book value: useless – assets are not at mkt value – they are at cost value book value doesn’t tell you the value of the good will or adjusted balance sheet technique not so good best approach: market approach look at p/e ratio of as many similar companies (see slides) p/e * earnings = value but also have to adjust for future earnings salary: over paying themselves – the difference goes back into earnings number want expenses back into the earnings adjust for future earnings adjust for potential contingent liability structure a deal to protect yourself if there is a contingent liability what do you with inventory that is obsolete how to deal with discrepancies to be fair to both sides market approach book value: useless – assets are not at mkt value – they are at cost value book value doesn’t tell you the value of the good will or adjusted balance sheet technique not so good best approach: market approach look at p/e ratio of as many similar companies (see slides) p/e * earnings = value but also have to adjust for future earnings salary: over paying themselves – the difference goes back into earnings number want expenses back into the earnings adjust for future earnings adjust for potential contingent liability structure a deal to protect yourself if there is a contingent liability what do you with inventory that is obsolete how to deal with discrepancies to be fair to both sides market approach book value: useless...
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...The last book in the New Testament is the book of Revelation. It is a probably one of the most discussed and debated books of the entire Bible. The book of Revelation is one of the books of the Bible that most everyone seems to have an opinion about, but yet it is a book that is often misunderstood. This is mostly due to misinterpreted because it contains symbols that must be interpreted, along with different meanings of words. Many scholars of the Bible have studied the book of Revelation and still will have different opinions on what this book represents. We often find ourselves getting very frustrated when trying to figure out what this book is trying to tell us. One thing that most can agree on is that we know for sure is that this book is the final chapter in God’s plan for the human race. We can spend all day trying to figure out what these different things mean but the bottom line is, it doesn’t matter what we think and what we believe is going to happen. God is in control and God’s plan will be fulfilled regardless of what anybody thinks or believes might or might not happen. So how do we go about interpreting and understanding the book of Revelation? Dr. Cornelius Venema, president and professor of doctoral studies at Mid-America Reformed Seminary and associate pastor of Redeemer United Reformed church in Dryer, Indiana published in his article in the Table Talk magazine, dated January 1, 2012. In this article he gives us a five examples...
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...destroyed by fire—before the asset is fully depreciated. The remaining carrying value of the asset in that case should be written off as a loss. Sometimes, though, the impairment of future value is subtler. The way we recognize and measure an impairment loss differs depending on whether the operational assets are to be held and used or are being held to be sold. Accounting is different, too, for operational assets with finite lives and those with indefinite lives. We consider those differences now. Operational Assets to Be Held and Used An increasingly common occurrence in practice is the partial write-down of operational assets that remain in use. For example, in the second quarter of 2001, American Airlines reduced the carrying value (book value) of certain aircraft by $685 million. The write-down reflected the significant reduction in demand for air travel that occurred even before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. An operational asset held for use should be written down if there has been a significant impairment of value. Conceptually, there is considerable merit for a policy requiring the write-down of an operational asset when there has been a significant decline in value. A write-down can provide important information about the future cash flows that a company can generate from...
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...long. It is a drama/ science fiction movie that is based on burning books but has a lot of more meaning to it. This movie is set in the future and is about freedom and individuality. The purpose of this movie is to show the audience the perspective of the future and to change the way they view things. This movie takes place in the future and the protagonist is Guy Montag. In this film he is a fireman who seems pretty happy with his life until he meets this girl named Clarisse who is his neighbor. Beatty is also one of the main characters in this film that plays Montag’s fire captain. In this film books are banned and anyone who is caught reading them is considered a criminal. The people who enjoy reading books are called eels. In the beginning of the film Montag is devoted to his job but over time is wanting the knowledge that comes in the books that he has burned his whole life. Throughout this film he becomes obsessed with books and changes him to start rebelling against society....
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...Advantages The direct write-off method is simple, and can be used by individuals that maintain a company's set of books yet have no extensive accounting education. Unlike the allowance method that estimates probable losses using various ratios and factors, the direct method is based on an actual amount which may be more superior to the small business owner. Disadvantages Since the direct write-off method records the loss only when the account is determined uncollectible, it may result in a loss from a prior period being charged against unrelated income in a future period. This may result in the distortion of a company's true profit of a given period, and does not comply with GAAP matching principle, which requires expenses to be matched with their associated revenues within the same period.Advantages The direct write-off method is simple, and can be used by individuals that maintain a company's set of books yet have no extensive accounting education. Unlike the allowance method that estimates probable losses using various ratios and factors, the direct method is based on an actual amount which may be more superior to the small business owner. Disadvantages Since the direct write-off method records the loss only when the account is determined uncollectible, it may result in a loss from a prior period being charged against unrelated income in a future period. This may result in the distortion of a company's true profit of a given period, and does not comply with GAAP matching...
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...drop Western segment from production lines for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the external factor to drop Western segment is that Walker Books needs to prepare funds to invest on E-book production development since digital revenues are replacing tradition book revenues and Walker Books needs to start E-book business to prevent losing revenue from lack of online sales.(Appendix 5) Thus, after dropping Western segment, Walker Books will be able to spend variable costs associated with Western segment on developing E-book production. Second, the internal main factor for dropping Western Segment from production line is because dropping Western Segment has the least opportunity cost to drop in order to prepare funds for investing on E-book development based on our assumptions and analysis. Our group members concluded that Western segment has the least possibility to improve its net profit in comparison with other segments in the future. In spite of the fact Children’s Books and Mystery segments make more losses than Western segment does, we determined that Western segment will not generate much profit in the future with expense management in the future due to the small amount of gross regular sales while we inferred that net profits of Children’s Book segment and Mystery segment can greatly improve if they undergo expense management in the future thanks to their a lot of gross regular sales. b) According to Ramsay’s recognition, the fixed costs of each segment accounts for two...
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...Ashes of the Future Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury was written in 1950, however it takes place far into the future, even beyond 2014. In this future society, television and radio essentially control the world, and literature is virtually becoming extinct. Firefighters's jobs are to start fires, not put them out. Their mission is to burn all books and the houses they're found in. Guy Montag is one of these firefighters, who is numb to the effects of book burning. He finds joy in the fires and goes about his duties every day, burning books, coming home to his wife, Mildred, who is addicted to her television "family" and sleeping pills. His world is loud and busy, but essentially empty. Eventually, Montag meets his neighbor Clarisse, who is unlike everyone else in that she notices the details in life and the nature all around her, and values the old way of life, including books. Once Montag starts talking to her, he starts to see the flaws in this modern society and wonders what books really contain. This curiosity is heightened even more when he witnesses an old woman die with her books in her house fire because she refused to leave them. Montag begins to collect and read books, which ultimately...
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